When Elizabeth Hotchkiss stumbles upon a copy of HOW TO MARRY A MARQUIS in her employer's library she's convinced someone is playing a cruel joke. With three younger siblings to support she knows she has to marry for money but who might have guessed how desperate she's become? A guidebook to seduction might be just the thing she needs
- & what harm could there be in taking a little peek? James Sidwell the Marquis of Riverdale has been summoned to rescue his aunt from a blackmailer a task that requires him to pose as the new estate manager & his primary suspect is his aunt's companion Elizabeth. Intrigued by the alluring young woman with the curious little rulebook he gallantly offers to help her find a husband.. .by practicing her wiles on him. But when practise becomes all too perfect James decides that there is only one rule worth following
- that Elizabeth marry her marquis.